Penniman v. Winner
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from tlie Circuit Court for Howard County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. First Exception.—Stated in the opinion of the Court.
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Appeal from tlie Circuit Court for Howard County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. First Exception.—Stated in the opinion of the Court. Second Exception.—The plaintiff offered the two following prayers: 1. That if the jury find from the evidence in the case, that the plaintiff and defendant were joint owners of a promissory note, drawn hy the Rockland and Venango Coal Oil Company, and dated the 21st day of January, 1865, for $5,000, and payable sixty days after the date thereof, and that the plaintiff, into whose hands said note was given by said company for valuable…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
The appellee, Winner, sold to the Rockland and Venango Coal Oil Company, an oil well and oil lands adjacent thereto for twenty thousand dollars, the purchase money to be paid as follows :—ten thousand dollars cash, note at sixty days for five thousand, and five thousand dollars in the stock of the company.
*133In pursuance of these terms, the sale was duly consummated, and the property was conveyed to the company.
The note for five thousand dollars was subsequently délivered to the defendant for collection, and this suit is brought against him for its conversion.
At the trial the defendant offered…
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